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Old 01-20-2017, 07:26 PM   #121
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Congratulations! Now that you have an excellent spare the original motor will never break down! Wayne
Isn't that the truth. I was recently given an engine that has been a club member's "spare" for ~40 years. He said it came with his car and has been sitting in his garage all this time.
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Old 01-20-2017, 08:06 PM   #122
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Tom, you must be psychic. Started to clean it up, and a big chunk fell out!
That would make a good cutaway display item.

Should be easy to cut with most of the metal rusted away.
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That would make a good cutaway display item.

Should be easy to cut with most of the metal rusted away.
Yea, yea, rub it in!

Going to pick up another head this morning. $25 bucks can't get hurt too bad.
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Old 01-23-2017, 07:26 PM   #124
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Brumfield head installed, started right up. Seems to run about the same, sounds the same to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABt...ature=youtu.be
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Old 01-23-2017, 07:35 PM   #125
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Brumfield head installed, started right up. Seems to run about the same, sounds the same to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABt...ature=youtu.be
Did the compression come up?
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Old 01-23-2017, 07:44 PM   #126
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Did the compression come up?
Probably.

I'll re-torque in the morning, run it again and check the compression while it's warm.
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Yea, yea, rub it in!

Going to pick up another head this morning. $25 bucks can't get hurt too bad.
If this is that $25 head, you sure got lucky.
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If this is that $25 head, you sure got lucky.
Yep, $25 bucks. He had several stock heads too. He knew it was a high compression head, I even remarked to him that a Synders 5.5 was $300. And asked if he was sure he wanted to part with it. A stock head would have been fine with me, but since he didn't care I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try it out. It certainly didn't fit down over the studs as well as the one I pulled off, and the distributor seems to set a wee bit higher making the spark-plug wires seem a tad too short. I took a peek at the honing marks in the cylinders while I had the head off, they are still there for the most part but you can tell it is wearing in. He has a Fordor for sale for $5000 too if anyone's interested. A pretty complete car that does run and drive.
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Old 01-24-2017, 05:42 PM   #129
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Did the compression come up?
CHA-CHING! Maybe a little more with some run time on it?

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